My father's favourite book is none other than Timeline, written by Michael Crichton. The book is about a group of science undergraduates time travelling back in time to medieval Europe. Armed with theirhistory knowledge, they managed to change some of the historicals events, but not the final outcome. This perhaps shows that history cannot be altered even with time travel. Time travel opens up many paradoxes for example if you go back in time and kill your parents, how would you exist?
This is probably why my father liked that book, for it was also a science fiction book. Well, actually, I also wanted to read that book, for it sounded like an enticing read. It maysound like a fantasy, but the book uses existing knowledges to support the possibility of time travel to the past. It is every's persons inner wish to travel back in time, armed with knowledge of the pasts, hence giving him a advantage to live his life as compared to the rest.
Besides this, Micheal Crichton had also written other science fiction books which my father also loved to read like Prey, Next, Sphere, The Running Man, Jurassic Park etc. Many of his books were made into popular movies. Thus, Michael Crichton could have said to be one of the best authors.
I'm a big Crichton fan too. I even taught some of his novels to my high school students in Canada. I hope you try reading him as well. Great writer who makes difficult concepts and ideas simple to understand...always the hallmark of a world-class author.
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